Timeline of lymphoma

This is a timeline of lymphoma, describing especially major discoveries and advances in treatment against the disease.

Big picture
Year/periodKey developments
19th CenturyThe presence of lymphoma in western medical literature is born after the works of people like Thomas Hodgkin and Samuel Wilks. Hodgkin's lymphoma is the first lymphoma to be described.
1900–1950sIt is found that radiation therapy can cure some patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, one of two major classes of lymphomas. When it is discovered that radiating larger parts of the body improves cure rates, physicians begin increasing the size of the radiation fields. Radiotherapy starts to prove successful as a treatment against Hodgkin's lymphoma in the 1940s.[1] However, long-term effects of radiation to the chest (including cardiovascular disease and second cancers) are later recognized, and efforts start to be taken to reduce radiation exposure to healthy tissue.[2]
1960s–1970sVery effective treatments for Hodgkin's lymphoma are developed in this period.[3] Chemotherapeutic agents are combined into regimens capable of eradicating and even disseminating the disease.[4] Combination of chemotherapy and high-energy radiation therapy are introduced.[5]
1990s–presentModern era of treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma, focusing on reducing both toxicity and duration of chemotherapy.[4] Lymphomas developed in 566,000 people in 2012 and caused 305,000 deaths worldwide.[6] They comprise the seventh-most common form of cancers making up the 3–4% of them.[7]

Full timeline
Year/periodType of eventEventLocation
1666DevelopmentItalian biologist Marcello Malpighi publishes De viscerum structuru exercitatio anatomica, where he describes what later will be known as Hodgkin's lymphoma.[8]
1832DevelopmentBritish physician Thomas Hodgkin presents a paper describing seven patients with painless enlargement of the lymph nodes, and including autopsy findings and illustrations from one of the patients.[8]London, United Kingdom
1856BookBritish physician Samuel Wilks publishes Cases of lardaceous diseases and some allied affections with remarks, describing similar cases to those presented by Thomas Hodgkin. Wilks honors Hodgkin by eponymously referring to this disease as Hodgkin's lymphoma.[8]
1871DevelopmentBillroth reports the first case of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma[9]
1872–1878DevelopmentMicroscopic descriptions of Hodgkin's lymphoma are first described.[8]
1878DevelopmentW. S. Greenfield first publishes drawings of the pathognomonic giant cells, later called Reed–Sternberg cells.[10]
1894DevelopmentOsler first mentions use of chemotherapy for lymphoma in his work Textbook of Medicine.[11]
1898DevelopmentAustrian pathologist Carl Sternberg first describes in detail giant cells (Reed–Sternberg cells).[12]Germany
1902DevelopmentAmerican physician Dorothy Reed Mendenhall independently describes Reed-Sternberg cells.[12]United States
1910DiscoveryAlbert Cook, a missionary doctor in Africa, reports a child with a large jaw tumor, in what becomes the first description of Burkitt lymphoma.[13]Uganda
1925DiscoveryFollicular lymphoma is first described.[14]
1932DevelopmentChevalier and Bernard describe the use of radiation therapy to treat Hodgkin's disease.[1]
1939DevelopmentE. Epstein reports better survival prognosis for women against Hodgkin's lymphoma in his book Sex as factor in the prognosis of Hodgkins disease.[12]
1942DevelopmentGall and Mallory propose the first morphological classification for lymphoma.[9]
1944DiscoveryLymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, also known as Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, is first described by Swedish oncologist Jan G. Waldenström.[15]Sweden
1949TreatmentFirst chemotherapy drug (nitrogen mustard) is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma.[2]United States
1949–1956DiscoveryAfter shielding a mouse's spleen, researchers discover that the body recruits stem cells, which are found in the spleen and bone marrow, to protect and heal itself from radiation damage.[2]
1956DevelopmentAmerican chemist Henry Rapoport proposes the first classification of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma based on cellular morphology.[9]
1963TreatmentFirst program for combination of chemotherapy agents against Hodgkin's lymphoma is designed, combining cyclophosphamide, vincristine, methotrexate, and prednisone (MOMP).[16]
1965OrganizationThe International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is founded as an intergovernmental agency forming part of the World Health Organization of the United Nations. Its role is to conduct and coordinate research into the causes of cancer.[17]Lyon, France
1966DiscoveryIt is discovered that Hodgkin's lymphoma spreads through the body in an orderly and somewhat predictable way. This implies that prognosis and appropriate treatment can be determined based on the extent of the spread.[2]
1967TreatmentNew chemotherapy regimen called MOPP (mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisone) is found to cure more than 50 percent of patients with advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma.[2]
1974TreatmentAntibiotic doxorubicin is approved by FDA as part of combination chemotherapy against Hodgkin's lymphoma.[2]United States
1975DiscoveryResearchers first identify lymphoblastic lymphoma.[18]
1975TreatmentNew chemotherapy combination of doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (known as ABVD) is found to be more effective than the older MOPP combination regimen, and causes fewer side effects.[2]
1977DiscoveryAdult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, a distinct subtype of lymphoma, is reported.[18]Japan
1983DiscoveryMALT lymphoma is first described by Isaacson and Wright.[19]
1985TreatmentBone marrow transplantation is successfully used to cure lymphoma.[2]
1987DiscoveryEpstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA is first reported in Reed–Sternberg cells of a proportion of Hodgkin's lymphoma cases.[8]
1990OrganizationThe International Lymphoma Study Group is founded.[8]
1991OrganizationLymphoma Research Foundation of America (LRFA) is founded.[12]Los Angeles, United States
1992DiscoveryMantle cell lymphoma subtype is first recognized.[20]
1992TreatmentGerman Hodgkin Study Group (GHSG) develops the BEACOPP regimen for patients with advanced Hodgkin's lymphoma, involving the use of chemotherapy agents bleomycin, etoposide, adriamycin, cyclophosphamide, oncovin, procarbazine and prednisone.[1][21]Germany
1994DevelopmentThe Revised European-American Classification of Lymphoid Neoplasms (REAL) is proposed as a new classification for non Hodgkin's lymphoma, taking into account immunologic, genetic and clinical characteristics of the disorders in addition to histopathologic characteristics of the tumor cells.[22]
1994OrganizationCure for Lymphoma Foundation is established.[12]New York City, United States
1994DiscoveryPrimary effusion lymphoma type is first recognized.[23]
1995DiscoveryResearchers discover that lymphocyte transfusion from a biologically matched, healthy donor to a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia can induce the disease into remission.[2]
1997TreatmentFDA approves rituximab, the first molecularly targeted cancer drug, to treat patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma that no longer responds to other treatments[24]United States
1997DiscoveryALK+ large B-cell lymphoma is first reported.[25]
2001DiscoveryScientists discover that diffuse large B-cell lymphoma – the most common form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma – is actually two distinct diseases, each with its own genetic profile.[2]
2002TreatmentFDA approves ibritumomab tiuxetan, which combines radioactive material with a specific protein. The radioactive material kills the cells with which it comes in contact, while sparing the healthy surrounding tissue. It is the first radioimmunotherapy introduced to treat lymphoma.[2]United States
2008DiscoveryWHO classification recognizes primary mediastinal (thymic) large B cell lymphoma type.[26][27]
2013–2014DrugIbrutinib is approved by the FDA for patients with mantle cell lymphoma or chronic lymphocytic leukemia that progresses despite other standard therapies.[2]United States

See also

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